My new Dell 6400 with Vista Home Premium has plenty of power and 2 G Ram and everything runs like lightning except Outlook. I Googled 'Outlook runs slow' and bingo.up came tons of sites with people in the same boat. Check out these couple of posts I copied below. By the way, my system won't let me uncheck the Outlook Addins that the posts below advise, as I get a message saying can't do, connected to registry!?
How to work around this? Are they XP maybe that this is being tried on? Or, I could just uninstall Outlook add-ins but, I would rather uncheck them then just uninstall a program if I could. Anyway, mine runs slow enough that my text cannot keep up with typing and believe me I type slowly: If I can't figure out how to uncheck them then I will uninstall Outlook Addins. My pst file is only 11,000KB by the way. Maybe the following will help those of us with Outlook running so slow and I hope the Advanced computer skill people on this site can sort through this and help those of us with slow Outlook problems through this.
It appears Dell has their own particular problem with Outlook Add-In Setup from Cyberlink connected with Media center and then there is the ccase of all the other Add-Ins it seems. Here is the link: Here are a few posts: Ernie lovecars Posts 2 Re: Office Outlook 2007 VERY SLOW! Was this post helpful? I am having the same problem, except I'm running the release version of Vista Hope Premium and the Release version of Office 2007. Very Slooooowwwww hickups. In other words the CPU goes from 2% to 90% every 4 or 5 seconds.
The only way I can run pretty well is running Outlook in safe mode. I've turned off all plug ins that I could find, also turn off RSS's, I don't know what else to turn off. Looking at the task manager only shows Outlook.exe hogging up the CPU cycles. It's pretty agravating, specially since this is a new computer. I was searcing the Dell Forums and found out that you need to uninstall the OutlookAddin Setup from Cyberlink, it's a part of MediaDirect.
It suppossed to let you view your emails etc without turning on the computer. I guess the bug were never worked out. Now I'll go back to turning on features to see if Outlook behaves. Ernest Aguilar Report Abuse 09 Feb 2007, 12:11 AM UTC Boston22 Posts 1 Re: Office Outlook 2007 VERY SLOW!
(1) disabled the Microsoft SharePoint Server Colleague Import Addin; and (2) disabled the AVG Addin for MS Outlook. Outlook 2016 is now running acceptably fast again. I wonder if AVG will release an updated addin without this slowness issue, or whether the core of the problem is actually in how Outlook 2016 itself handles addins. However, some third-party stuff might also contribute to slowing down Outlook. You can easily remove all such problematic Add-Ins. Open Microsoft Office Outlook. Click the File menu. Select Options. Click the Add-Ins tab in the new dialog that opens. On the lower corner of the screen, click Go.
Was this post helpful? I spent 2 hours with Dell Tier 3 support and we can up with the same conclusion. You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder).
Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. Then click on 'go.' At the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems.
Good luck to everyone!! Report Abuse 09 Feb 2007, 8:54 AM UTC Bart-Rennes Posts 3 Re: Office Outlook 2007 VERY SLOW!
Was this post helpful? Boston22 wrote: You need to open outlook as an administrator (by right clicking on the exe file in the Office 12 folder). Then, go to tools/trust center/addins. Then click on 'go.'
At the bottom. I would uncheck outlookaddins. That solved all of my problems! To be extra safe, and to maximize speed, I unchecked everything except indexing (which is the only useful one). That solved my problems. Good luck to everyone!! YES IT WORKS!
I have also a Dell with 2go ram. Thanks a lot.
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Anyway, that is what I stumbled on. Sorry if I have broken any Forum rules, but I am just trying to shed light on what I see as a significant and growing problem. I have read this thread and thought yippee, problem solved. Alas, no When I tried to uncheck the Outlookaddin box I got a message saying ' The connected state of Office Addins registered in HKEYLOCALMACHINE cannot be changed. Can anyone tell me what I can do about this? I have 4 boxes still checked, MS Outlook Mobile Service, MS VBA for Outlook Addin, Outlook Addin, Windows Search Email Indexer. I want to uncheck all except the indexer as recommended above.
I am running Outlook 2007 in Administrater mode, on Windows Vista. Hope someone can help, Outlook has made my laptop so slow it is virtually unusable.
This problem may have been simple to some but was a huge nightmare to me. I even contemplated buying a new computer to resolve it. Some times the problems reduced me to tears and while my business require fast responses and heavy e-mail usage, I was paralyzed by the slowness of Outlook. Now I understood the trick that Microsoft would never tell you; you must open Outlook as an administrator or you will not be able to unchecked the Add Ins. Why on earth doesn't Microsoft consider these ad dins as Bl.
Really thank you from the heart and bless you all. Anyone who has had this problem knows how frustrating it is.it absolutely cripples Outlook's performance. It is such a relief to solve it and yes, without knowing you must open Outlook as an Administrator, you are doomed.
Hard to believe Outlook 2007 was released and dumped on the public when it really did not work correctly. I am not sure if this is Vista specific, but still, somebody in testing missed something pretty basic considering Microsoft sells both. Just happy to hear of anyone sorting this problem out.believe me, I remember how frustrating it was.